The only reason the Home Office hasn’t disbanded them for treason is because they’re too bloody foolish to succeed at true anarchy.” I know you’re a ‘live and let live’ sort of fellow, Freddy, but that lot is the very devil. “Don’t think I’ve had so much as a note from Jonny since he took up with them. “It was those bloody Anarchists,” Trent said, his green eyes narrow with anger. With the exception of his penchant for horses, he was the least reckless of all of us.” “One doesn’t expect someone your own age to shuffle off this mortal coil. “I just wasn’t expecting it,” Freddy said glumly, stretching his long legs out before him and crossing them at the ankle. And, since Trent had been away on business, this was their first gathering since losing their friend.
It had been a month since Craven’s death during a race between members of the driving club, the Lords of Anarchy. Since Trent never said a damned thing about his time in the army, it was difficult to know either way. As a decorated soldier in the Napoleonic wars, Trent had become accustomed to friends dying. The third member of their party, the Duke of Trent, shrugged before taking a healthy drink. “Damned inconvenient of Craven to force that on us.” “‘The three horsemen’ simply doesn’t have the same ring to it,” the Earl of Mainwaring groused into his brandy from the other side of the table. And social gatherings were no exception.īut, he’d dashed well not planned on his friend Jonathan Craven dying unexpectedly. It was rare that he came into a situation not already knowing every possible outcome. Freddy, as he was known to his friends, was a planner. “I’d like to know what the deuce Craven was thinking to get himself killed like that,” Lord Frederick Lisle said from his favorite chair in the corner of Brook’s Club.Īs was his usual custom, he had been the first of his friends to arrive, and therefore had his choice of seats. With everything to lose, is their tempestuous affair worth the risk? But it isn’t long before pretending to be lovers leads to very real passion. A sham engagement to Leonora will allow Frederick to bring her into the club and along for the ride. If only he didn’t also happen to be the man who broke Leonora’s heart…įrederick isn’t surprised to find gorgeous, headstrong Leonora playing detective, but he knows that the Lords of Anarchy mean business-and he has no choice but to protect her. But the only way she can infiltrate their reckless inner circle is to enlist the help of Jonny’s closest ally, Lord Frederick Lisle. Jonathan Craven was involved with the Lords of Anarchy, a notorious driving club, and Leonora can’t help but suspect foul play. Heartbroken by the loss of her brother, Miss Leonora Craven vows to uncover the truth about his “accident,” which seems to have been anything but.
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